Learning Google Apps Script电子书

Learning Google Apps Script

Table of Contents

Learning Google Apps Script

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewer

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Introducing Google Apps Scripts

Google Applications

Google Apps Script

Visual Basic for Applications

The advantages of GAS over VBA

The limitations of GAS

Google Drive

Gmail

Google Calendar

Google Docs

Google Sheets

Google Apps services

Creating Google Sheets in Drive and sharing them with your friends and the public

Script projects

Creating standalone script projects

Creating new projects in Sheets

Creating a custom formula in Sheets

Google Forms

Creating Forms within Google Sheet

Some research

Summary

2. Creating Basic Elements

Creating a clickable button

Showing toast when a button is clicked

Creating a custom menu

Creating a sidebar

Creating an Add-ons menu

Creating a modal dialog

Creating a modeless dialog

Debugging your script

Summary

3. Parsing and Sending E-mails

Creating Gmail Contacts by script

Accessing Sheet, cell, range, and offset

Reading and writing the Sheet data

Building a Gmail Contact search application

Building the Gmail parser application

Properties service

Downloading Gmail attachments to Drive

Sending e-mails using the MailApp service

Sending an e-mail notification on Form submission

Creating triggers manually

Creating and deleting triggers by script

Forwarding e-mails if the specific keyword is found in the message body

Sending e-mail with attachments

Embedding inline images in an e-mail message

Building an e-mail merger application

Summary

4. Creating Interactive Forms

Creating Forms using script

Publishing the script as a web application

HtmlService

Creating a Form using HtmlService

Submitting form using Google script API method

Creating forms using add-ons CSS and jQuery libraries

Creating an e-voting application

Creating a ticket reservation application

Summary

5. Creating Google Calendar and Drive Applications

The CalendarApp class

Creating Calendar events from a simple description

Creating simple Calendar events

Creating events with options

Creating events from Sheets data

Creating events from an external CSV file's contents

Enabling advanced Google services

Listing all the Calendars

Listing Calendar events in Sheets

Syncing events from one Calendar to another Calendar

The DriveApp class

Creating customized PDF files

Creating a Drive file routing application

Creating a Drive file search application

Summary

6. Creating Feed Reader and Translator Applications

The UrlFetchApp class

Creating a Google search application

Creating a stock quote ticker application

Logging Bitcoin quotes

RSS and Atom feeds

Skeleton of a RSS feed document

Creating an RSS reader application

Skeleton of an Atom feed document

Creating an Atom feed reader application

Using optional parameters with the UrlFetchApp class

The LanguageApp class

Creating the language translator application

Creating a document reviewing and instant inline commenting application

Summary

7. Creating Interactive Webpages

Creating a web app to render Sheet data as HTML

Creating a web app to return JSON

Converting Sheet data as a PDF file

Sending an HTTP/HTTPS request with query string

Creating RSS feed using ContentService

Creating a file upload application

Creating an employee timesheet application

Summary

8. Building a Workflow Application

Order processing workflow – steps explained

Configuring Google Sheets

Creating the Order form

Enhancing the Order form

Creating the dispatch form

Dispatching the articles

Enabling the user to acknowledge the article delivery

Summary

9. More Tips and Tricks and Creating an Add-on

Overcoming the "script exceeded maximum execution time" error

Configuring your script project to use external libraries

Using JSDoc annotations

Using the OAuth open source library

Creating, testing, and publishing add-ons

Installing add-ons from Chrome Web Store

Creating custom add-ons

Testing your add-on

Creating an add-on that uses an OAuth2 external library

Other useful links

Summary

Index